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Loure

The loure is a type of bagpipe native to Normandy, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries but later extinct prior to its modern revival. There was also a larger version known as the haute loure.

Loure player or norman bagpiper (see . Sculpture from the Collegial church of Mortain (Normandy), from the end of the Middle Age.
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The loure is a type of bagpipe native to Normandy, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries but later extinct prior to its modern revival. There was also a larger version known as the haute loure. 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Loure (bagpipe)”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

Loure is recorded in open cultural data. The structured record cited below does not describe the practice, and this entry has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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